How big of a year is this going to be for Republicans? It’s still hard to tell, one week before voters go to the polls for the midterm elections. But it could be bigger than you think. Republicans have a plethora of House and Senate opportunities, and given President Barack […] Read more »
Senate Update: The Swing States That Never Swung
Monday featured a reasonably good set of polls for Republicans. … Republican chances of winning the Senate are 65 percent according to our latest forecast, slightly improved from Sunday. But we’ve talked plenty about races like Colorado. So let’s try something a little different: Considering those races that looked as […] Read more »
Three Key Questions Will Determine What Direction Election Winds Are Blowing
The political environment usually is “set” in midterm elections around midsummer. At that point, it’s generally easy to see which direction the partisan winds are blowing, and one usually has an idea as to whether those winds are light, moderate, or heavy. By this time in the cycle, now a […] Read more »
Voters Head to the Polls Frustrated and Angry at Congress, President
With only a week to go until the 2014 midterms, the public’s mood can be summed up in three words—frustration, anger, and anxiety. More than five years after the official end of the Great Recession, most people are frustrated by the stagnation of wages and household incomes. They are angry […] Read more »
Voters are angry
Nearly 7 in 10 Americans are angry at the direction the country is headed and 53% of Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama’s job performance, two troubling signs for Democrats one week before the midterm elections, a new CNN/ORC International Poll shows. CONT. Mark Preston, CNN Read more »
Voters Expect Republican Wins, in Kansas and Elsewhere
Polls typically ask people which candidate they want to win. But some researchers have come to believe that another question — which candidate they expect to win — produces more meaningful results. When people are asked about their expectations, some may actually give more honest answers about their own voting […] Read more »